Market participants are also cautious ahead of the gathering devoted to the monetary policy of the ECB, as the EU’s key bank indicated that its gathering will be utilized to discuss the issue of ceasing the bond purchase program. Meanwhile, the gathering on the monetary policy of the BOJ ends on Friday.

Additionally, the Australian market dived, following the downbeat signals from Wall Street. By the way, mixed Australian jobs in May also had a minor impact on the market.

Among the key miners, Fortescue Metals and Rio Tinto both edged up 0.2%, while BHP Billiton managed to tack on 0.3% notwithstanding diving iron ore prices.

As for the banking space, equities of ANZ Banking, National Australia Bank, Commonwealth Bank as well as Westpac tumbled 0.7%-0.9%.

The Japanese market headed south after downbeat signals from Wall Street. Moreover, a stronger Japanese yen impacts equities of Japanese exporters.

Equities of Panasonic and Sony went down by over 1% each. Additionally, Mitsubishi Electric lost more than -1%, while Canon dipped by 0.3%.

Car makers Toyota and Honda cut their capitalization by respectively 0.2% and 0.6%.

As for the banking sector, the paper Mitsubishi UFJ Financial edged down by 0.4%, Sumitomo Mitsui Financial declined by 1%.

Toshiba equities rallied by 0.6% after the giant reported a planned buy-out of shares for nearly Y700 billion, thus keeping its pledge to have the shareholder rewarded having sold the chips for about $18 billion.